competent and capable comrades able to decide on behalf of the People's Commissars) with the participation of a representative of Hydroturf, as well as, of course, Guta and the Main Turf Administration.

Task of the conference: to fulfill not the letter only, but the spirit of the SNK resolution of 30.X.1920 and to endeavor to satisfy Hydroturf to the maximum (if not 100%, then necessarily in such a way that the main part of its 1922 work be completed by year's end).

Hydroturf must be satisfied partly at the expense of Tuturf and Guta, partly beyond the budget estimate.

It is essential to complete the work by the evening of 1.III and to submit it to the executive session of the STO on the evening of 1.III for subsequent confirmation by both the STO and the Council of People's Commissars by 3/10.

I ask you to instruct the secretariat to check with particular strictness and personally the speed and correctness of execution of this directive.

Conscious revolutionaries ought, besides fulfilling their official duty, to think about the economic reasons which compelled the SNK to recognize Hydroturf as "possessing extraordinary state importance."

Chairman of SNK V. Ulyanov (Lenin)